Crossover Anime: This is not pure love at all

Kuroe Minoru excitedly clicked on Kashiwagi Eri's latest masterpiece—"The Unspeakable Secret of the Hero in the Dark of the Alley."

That sounds so exciting! Is it another story about training paladins?

you can!

The background of the cover is a dimly lit alley.

A haughty girl with golden twin ponytails, dressed in a uniform, was cornered against the wall, her face flushed with a mixture of fear and shyness.

Speaking of those blonde twin tails... doesn't it look like a self-portrait of Eriri herself?!

In front of the girl stood a tall, imposing male figure.

He was wearing a set of dark gray medieval knight armor.

?

Kuroe Minoru's brain instantly started buzzing.

Isn't this night riding?

With trembling fingers, he clicked on the preview images below.

First image: A dark gray knight holds a rapier in one hand, cleaving a monster covered in spikes in two with a single stroke. His back view is cool and handsome.

Second image: The knight turns around, looks at the blonde girl who has fallen to the ground in fright, and slowly extends his hand, which is covered by metal armor.

Third picture: The girl cornered the knight against the wall, and then...

"..."

Awesome.

I'm not watching anymore.

Kuroe threw his phone aside.

He can't watch anymore.

The jade amulet that his grandmother gave her for protection cracked.

Kuroe Minoru stared blankly at the ceiling, feeling as if his soul had been struck by some indescribable force.

……

"Wow, Guitar Hero started streaming? Really?"

"Holy crap, it's actually airing!"

"Huh? mmk? What did you mean, the live stream started?"

"Huh? You don't know Guitar Hero?!" X2

In a practice room in Kawasaki, Nina's face changed color as she was stared at with shocked looks by Momoka Kawaharaki and Subaru Anwa. Finally, she could only manage a dry, stammering, "W-what's wrong? Is it so strange that you don't know her?"

No, that's not it.

Anwa Subaru swallowed hard before snapping out of his shock and walking up to Nina with his phone in hand.

"It's just a bit surprising that you haven't heard of 'Be the One,' which went viral online last night."

"Mmm-hmm-hmm."

Momoka, who usually seems uninterested in anything, nodded repeatedly like a child.

"The guitar arrangement and playing technique in that song...it's simply divine!"

Tao Xiang took a deep breath, her tone filled with undisguised admiration: "No, it's not just about technique. The guitar in that song has a soul. You can hear the heart-wrenching sorrow, yet you can also feel an explosive power burning everything in despair!"

"I have never heard a guitar solo with such terrifying emotional tension. The person who played this piece must have experienced some extremely profound pain and enlightenment at that time."

Seeing Momoka's unusually enthusiastic demeanor, Nina was also stunned.

She knew very well how demanding Momoka was of music; a piece that could earn such high praise from her must be extraordinary.

"Is it really that amazing?"

"You'll understand once you listen to it."

An and Subaru connected their phones to the Bluetooth speaker in the practice room, opened the profile of the account called "Guitar Hero," and played the latest video.

"Zheng—!"

The electric guitar intro, both stirring and tinged with an indescribable sense of tragic grandeur, instantly resounded throughout the practice room.

At the very beginning, Nina's pupils suddenly contracted.

She is a very sentimental young woman.

The moment she heard the guitar, she seemed to see a burning ruin, and a lonely yet resolute figure rushing headlong into the endless darkness with justice.

Grief, longing, adoration, despair, and the final outburst...

All emotions were perfectly kneaded into the frantically plucked strings!

"That's amazing..." Nina murmured to herself, her eyes even slightly reddening.

"Right?" Although it wasn't the first time Anwa Subaru had heard this, he still let out a long sigh.

"I first got to know Guitar Hero through this video. I also watched all her past videos last night. She has a very high level of professionalism."

After a while, Taoxiang spoke.

"Look at this."

Momoka also took out her phone and handed it to Nina and Subaru, who were curiously crowding around.

What caught her eye was a short, rambling post, which Nina read aloud with curiosity.

"Let me see... because I'm always being pursued by a large group of active, music-loving guys in bands, I don't have time to update videos."

"But thankfully, I accepted the advances of a really handsome disciplinary committee member these past two days, so updates will be back to normal... Waaah, what a narcissistic person I am..."

"No, I think it's just bragging, because if someone were truly a 'real person,' they would definitely include photos."

Tao Xiang put her phone away and pointed to the guitar hero in front of her, introducing herself and the people around her.

She basically introduces herself as a popular girl with a great figure and many good friends, and has a boyfriend who is the captain of a baseball team, but they have broken up.

"In short, if she weren't the only instrument she plays, I would have wanted to recruit her into our band."

Anhe Subaru looked at the eloquent Momoka, then suddenly grinned mischievously, pounced on her from behind and grabbed her shoulders, "Hehe~ Actually, even if she knew other things, we still couldn't get her to do it~ After she posted that video, she gained 27 followers, which is already considered a big shot."

"Hey, you!"

Nina ignored the two's playful fight and instead took out her phone to search for Guitar Hero, which struck her as odd.

The other person is clearly someone who loves to brag, so why did they release a viral video this time but not post any new updates?

Seeing that the other person's last post was from a day ago, Nina was puzzled.

……

"Is he among these people?"

A hoarse, eerie voice suddenly rang out in the cramped space.

Goto Ichiri huddled in the corner, his whole body trembling violently like a sieve.

In front of her stood a bird-man, his head confined in a birdcage, his entire body blue.

"Um, but Kuroe-kun is already dead... it's impossible for him to be here..."

"Stop arguing!"

The Bluebird Demon God interrupted her, somewhat exasperated.

Who understands! When this woman first met him, she heard him say that he could grant her one wish, and she immediately regarded him as a genie in a lamp who could grant wishes.

She held him and mumbled to herself for a long time, but wouldn't say what wish she wanted to fulfill.

He kept saying things like, "Heijiang, let's meet, I like you," and so on.

This is incredibly troublesome!

Finally, seeing that he was getting desperate and afraid he would run away, the woman said she wanted to see Kuroe Minoru, and then gave him a photo to look for.

He found her an egg!

How do you find a dead person?!

So he decided to misinterpret this wish and keep taking pictures of boys who looked similar to her and showing them to her.

Even if she only said that this person looked somewhat similar, he could bring that boy back and forcibly fulfill his wish.

But who knew this woman seemed to have some mental issues; she would just stare blankly at him and say, "Ah, but Kuroe-kun is already dead..."

The Bluebird Demon God is on the verge of a breakdown.

"I'm done!!!"